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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece Dendias once again denied the ethnic Turkish identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
16.04.2021
ABTTF President: “Our country, which claims to be the cradle of democracy, disregards the most basic human rights by forbidding us to define ourselves as ‘Turks’. The policy of denial of our identity by the rulers of our country will never change the fact that we are Turks.” The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece Nikos...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe warned once again Greece!
12.03.2021
ABTTF President: ‘As confirmed by the Committee of Ministers, our country must now stop playing for time, it should fully and urgently execute the ECtHR judgments regarding our associations in accordance with its obligations arising from the European Convention on Human Rights to which it is a party’. The Committee of Ministers of th...
Statement from the Green Left Party in Greece regarding the Turkish community in Western Thrace
03.02.2021
ABTTF President: “Pursuant to bilateral and international treaties, the Turkish community in Western Thrace is an issue which directly concerns our country and our motherland, and for this reason, our problems must be put on the table during the exploratory talks.” The Thrace Regional Presidency of the Green Left Party which was foun...
Greece is one of the 10 most problematic countries in implementing the ECtHR judgments!
27.01.2021
Noting that increasing legal and political challenges have hindered the implementation of ECtHR judgments, the PACE report has said that Greece has still as of yet not implemented the ECtHR judgments regarding the associations of the Turkish community in Western Trace under the name of “Bekir-Ousta and Others” group of cases. The Par...
Hate speech from the leader of the Church of Greece!
18.01.2021
ABTTF President: ‘The hate-based speech with respect to Islam by Archbishop Ieronymos II is an indicator of the environment in which we, as the Muslim Turkish community in Western Thrace, are in our country’. The scandalous statement of the Archbishop of Athens Ieronymos II, leader of the Orthodox Church in our country Greece in the ...
Court ruled that far-right Golden Dawn is a criminal organisation
08.10.2020
ABTTF President: “The official acknowledgment of racist Golden Dawn Party which also targeted several times the Turkish community in Western Thrace and exercised both verbal and physical attacks in the recent past as a criminal organisation is an important victory for our country Greece.” The Court of Appeal of Greece’s c...
Attack against an association founded by the Western Thrace Turks who live in the province of Imathia, Greece!
01.10.2020
As ABTTF, we condemn in the strongest terms the abominable attack against the Imathia (Veria) Province Muslim Education, Culture and Sport Association, and call for the perpetrators to be immediately identified and brought to justice. An association, which was founded by Turks who emigrated from Western Thrace to Imathia, was attacked on 2...
We strongly condemn the abusive insult that was made to the president of our motherland!
18.09.2020
ABTTF President: “We call on the competent authorities of our country to immediately take the necessary steps by showing the same sensitivity in preventing hate speech targeting the Turkish community in Western Thrace which has notably increased lately.” “Dimokratia” newspaper, which is published nation-wide in our ...
Turkish journalists and Western Thrace Turks were targeted again in Greece
11.09.2020
ABTTF President: ‘We call upon our country Greece to take all the necessary measures in order to ensure the safety of the Turkish journalists working in the country as well as the members of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and to urgently stop its discriminatory policy towards the Turkish community in Western Thrace’. T...
EU urges Greece to comply with the law on migrants
04.09.2020
ABTTF President: “We as Western Thrace Turks who have been subjected to systematic discrimination for years by our country Greece which prides itself of being the cradle of democracy have been waiting for over 12 years for the implementation by Greece of the ECtHR judgments.” At the daily press conference on 3 September 2020, t...
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